Overview

• The petition argues that ongoing injunctions leave Florida powerless to address serious harms from illegal immigration.
• SB4-C creates a state felony for knowingly entering or re-entering Florida after bypassing federal immigration inspections.
• Judge Kathleen Williams blocked the law indefinitely, ruling it likely conflicts with federal immigration statutes and unconstitutional, and held the attorney general in civil contempt.
• A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to stay the measure as Florida’s appeal proceeds.
• The law is challenged by two anonymous migrants, the Florida Immigrant Coalition and the Farmworker Association of Florida, who argue it is federally preempted.